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[biteghost]

[Commission] Sketchpage of Ray (he/him) for @elkian! 🤍🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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[fuckabledragonoftheday]

Today's fuckable dragon of the day is...

MALDOROR from TIGER, TIGER (Webcomic)

[fancyfade]

Thanks SO much for the wheelchair tutorial! I was actually working on a wheelchair-using OC when it came on my dash so it felt like, fated XD A lot of the resources I've found tend to be very clinical so it was super helpful and I'm looking forward to putting it into practice. Do you have any advice for visually representing someone in an ill-fitting/uncomfortable chair vs a correct one? I have a before-and-after in that vein but don't want to look like I don't know what I'm doing in the before.

sorry I didn't see this ask earler.

Ngl thinking of how you move is one point. Like in the tutorial I pointed out patience had to stick her elbows at far to wheel around her high armrests. but sadly I don't have a ton of other advice. it's also going to be physically harder for the character to move around in the less comfortable wheelchair, and if it's a hospital-like wheelchair its going to be very hard or impossible to do wheelies.

sadly i dont have any other advice. you can always google "how to do (x) in a wheelchair". I know sometimes I get youtube videos of full time wheelchair users explaining, but sometimes i get videos of physical therapists demonstrating for patients, and those physical therapists generally use the hospital wheelchairs in their videos, so you might see someone moving there

[penny-anna]

Also re: the swords post (long time fave btw): what if the hobbits DO realize swords are sharp, of course! They're just really big knives! (whether they think big ppl just need big knives or if they're vaguely aware they're for war, up to you) and keep doing (kitchen) knife things with Big Ol' Swords, much to the Fellowship's distress

Sam: *cutting a sandwich with his ancient barrow-blade*

Aragorn: Sam nO

[keplercryptids]

Thanks for the image description resources! I recently did some sketches and a mini-comic featuring a pretty silly fantasy animal, and the descriptions were more on the humorous side than the exact detail side (I still tried to describe everything present, though). I've been a bit worried that people may prefer more exact and serious descriptions. It felt right in that instance, but I worry it wasn't accessible enough...

hi! it’s hard to say for sure without an example. in general though, i think fantastical or humorous descriptions for fantastical or humorous images is okay. personal preference varies and context matters. but generally speaking, as long as you are accurately describing everything (and not relying on jokes/references that require sight, if that makes sense) it should be fine.

[vilkalizer]

Definitely the most compelling romance in the entire game!

[lynnafred]

I'm living for your farm stories. There's a lot of (hilarious and also gross) bad stuff, do you have any stories about cool or fun things happening too? Or something so weird it still leaves you baffled?

Hi! Thanks for the ask! This ended up being longer than I expected, so I hope that’s okay!

This is the only job I’ve ever had where I have fun every day. I get to use really complex, increasingly dangerous tools! Sometimes they break and my coworker and I have to take them apart and fix them, and sometimes we screw up so badly that we have to look at manuals for nearly 100 year old equipment and hope there’s a diagram in it so we can put it back together right. (My coworker is a great mechanic on their own, but when the two of us are together we have a single brain cell that we have to share.) I get to see all kinds of birds and watch rabbits do dumb things and make noises at foxes who think I can’t see them (and scare coyotes away sometimes.) 

I get to see the most beautiful things, like the way the snow swirls around the farm during a blizzard, the way the fog settles like a blanket, and the way the moon rises over the big shed. And the sunsets! I get to watch small birds build nests, raise their young, and teach them to live on their own. I get to watch a plant start from seed and eventually get to take fruit off that plant and pass it onto someone who always always smiles and says, “You grew all these?!”

I’m in love with my job, even on my worst days there (like this one! This has not been a good day but your ask has absolutely delighted me!) And every day, I fall in love with it a little bit more.

But you wanted a story, and my ode to farming has reminded me of a very cool thing I got to do last summer:

So, like, we have to cover our blueberries with netting to keep birds out of them, because birds love blueberries and if we don’t they’ll just devour everything and we’ll have nothing left. One of the problems with bird netting is that birds are tenacious little bastards and will do anything to get under that blueberry net. So three times a day, every day, I go around the farm checking all the bird netting for trapped birds. And I grab them, untangle them, and release them.

And one evening as I was getting ready to leave, I remembered that I needed to do my last bird walk. (I didn’t have to, my boss didn’t know I did them, but I felt so bad for the birds that got trapped in the netting, so I always checked.) So I went up to the acre of blueberry netting...

...and a red-tailed hawk had gotten his big, dumb foot caught in the blueberry netting while he was trying to catch a bird. And he was pissed about it! He was flapping and thrashing and screaming and really carrying on about the whole thing. And hawks, while really smart, are also really untrusting and really mean. And this thing is, like, twice the size of my backyard hens and has a beak twice as strong as my parrot. 

But I’m not going to leave him stuck in that netting, so I go over there, stoop down into the grass a few feet away, and start talking to him. He screams and flaps and makes an unholy racket, and when he’s finally tired himself out long enough to take a short break, I grab him behind the head so he can’t bite and flip him onto his back. 

If you grab a bird behind the head and wrap your thumb and forefinger around his neck so he can’t turn (but not enough to choke) then they can’t bite. It’s the tactic I use for trimming my parrot’s nails at home. A bigger bird, certainly, but still: only a bird and the same principle applies. My bird calms down and gets really submissive when you get her on her back, and the hawk was no exception. No screaming, no wing flapping, no trying to bite, but a quiet bird who peeped occasionally (And hearing a hawk peep is 110% one of the funniest, most adorable things I’ve ever heard.) So once I had him there, I was able to pull out my pocketknife with my free hand and cut him loose.

Then, with one hand still around his neck and the other grabbing his feet, I turned him rightside up and just kind of... yeeted him out of the blueberries. He flapped awkwardly through the air until vanishing, screaming, into the woods.

Every time he was on the farm for the next week and he saw me, he’d scream like he was dying. 

[valgeristik]

hi i love your giant spiky daughter |D

hehe thank you!! i love her too ;w;